Luis Herrera

National Autonomous University of Honduras | UNAH · Valle de Sula

Las plantas de la familia Bromeliaceae, conocidas en general como bromelias, poseen características adaptativas que les han permitido conquistar espacios epifíticos dentro de los bosques neotropicales formando microambientes variados en el dosel. Varias especies arborícolas de herpetofauna (anfibios y reptiles) han aprovechado estos microambientes...

The Chortís Highlands of Mesoamerica exhibit a high degree of in situ evolutionary diversification, exemplified by numerous endemic radiations of stream-dwelling treefrogs (Anura: Hylidae: Atlantihyla, Duellmanohyla, and Ptychohyla), which have been a source of ongoing taxonomic uncertainty. Recent evidence suggests that one species, Atlantihyla sp...

In this Short Communication, we document the stranding of a pregnant dwarf sperm whale on the southeastern coast of the island of Utila in Honduras.

Norops sagrei (Duméril & Bribon, 1837). HONDURAS: YORO: El Progreso, (15°23'46"N, 87°48'48"W; WGS 84) elev. 60 m; 8 April 2017; Diana Mencía-B. and Luis Herrera-B. We found an adult male of the introduced Norops sagrei (UVS V1070) at 1530 h, on a fence surrounding a school (Fig 1A). This specimen represents the first record of this species in the d...

The invasive Greenhouse Frog, Eleutherodactylus planirostris, initially was detected in Honduras in 2007, in the city of San Pedro Sula, department of Cortés (McCranie et al., 2008). By 2014 this species had been recorded on Isla Guanaja in the department of Islas de la Bahía (McCranie and Valdés-Orellana, 2014), as well as in the departments of At...

El Danto (Tapirus bairdii) y el Jaguar (Panthera onca) son los mayores mamíferos silvestres terrestres herbívoros y carnívoros, respectivamente, de Honduras (Reid 2009). Ambos son considerados especies sombrilla, por lo que son piezas fundamentales en la salud de los bosques. Las acciones en pro de su conservación influyen de manera directa en la c...

1. Evaluating range-wide habitat use by a target species requires information on species occurrence over broad geographic regions, a process made difficult by species rarity, large spatiotemporal sampling domains, and imperfect detection. We address these challenges in an assessment of habitat use for jaguars (Panthera onca) outside protected areas...

El conocimiento de la ecología de las poblaciones de Tayassu pecari para Honduras es limitada pese a ser una especie de suma importancia para sus bosques tropicales. Se modeló su distribución potencial usando el programa MaxEnt 3.3.3a para lo cual se utilizaron 16 registros de presencia y 19 variables bioclimáticas. El modelo predice una extensión...

Los inventarios de herpetofauna pueden aportar datos valiosos para determinar las condiciones ecosistémicas de las áreas naturales. Actualmente, tres microcuencas de la Zona Productora de Agua “El Merendón” (ZPAEM), son las principales fuentes de abastecimiento de agua superficial para la ciudad de San Pedro Sula y alrededores. Es por este motivo,...

El Colibrí esmeralda hondureño (Amazilia luciae) es la única ave endémica de Honduras y está considerada en peligro de extinción. Históricamente ha sido detectado en las zonas secas de cinco departamentos en el país, siendo su primer registro formal en 1933 en Cortés, donde no se volvió a reportar hasta ahora. En marzo del 2015, durante un monitore...

El Danto (Tapirus bairdii) y el Jaguar (Panthera onca) son las especies terrestres silvestres de mayor tamaño en Honduras. Regulan, dan forma y estructura a la composición vegetal y animal de los bosques donde habitan y su pérdida, dentro de los ecosistemas, crea un detrimento serio en la salud del bosque y la calidad de servicios ecosistémicos que...

The Greater Grison (Galictis vittata) is considered the rarest and least-studied small carnivore in Mesoamerica. In recent years, camera traps have become a useful tool to achieve firsthand data about such rare and cryptic animals. Although there has been a large combined effort of camera-trapping performed across Mesoamerica, the Greater Grison is...

Populations of Red-throated Caracaras (Ibycter americanus) have been extirpated or are in serious decline throughout Middle America. We describe the first nest outside South America and provide only the third nest description for the species. We observed four adults and one immature Red-throated Caracara provide cooperative care to a single nestlin...

Se evaluó la diversidad de mamíferos medianos y grandes en fincas de cacao en el este de Honduras.

A new species of Tantilla is described from Refugio de Vida Silvestre Texíguat in northern Honduras. The new species is allocated to the Tantilla taeniata group, which currently contains 20 of the 63 species in the genus, but it differs from all congeners on the basis of its dorsal body pattern and scutellation. The new species has a pale mid-dorsa...

Little research has described jaguars Panthera onca as scavengers. Here we report a scavenging event on a marine dolphin carcass on the northern Honduran coast. After a dead dolphin was washed ashore a jaguar dragged the carcass 35 m into the forest. We installed and kept functional camera traps for 51 days on site. Two male jaguars were detected 1...

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Herpetofaunal inventory work totalling 2,320 person-hours of sampling on the windward side of Refugio de Vida Silvestre (RVS) Texíguat documented the presence of 47 herpetofaunal species, including 3 salamanders, 11 anurans, 12 lizards, and 21 snakes. Among these are 14 species endemic to Honduras, including three undescribed species (two bolitoglo...

We report the discovery of Plectrohyla chrysopleura at a locality in Refugio de Vida Silvestre Texiguat, Departamento de Atlántida, Honduras. This critically endangered treefrog was previously known only from a single site, 55 km to the east-northeast in Parque Nacional Pico Bonito, where it had not been documented since 1996. RESUMEN - Se reporta...